Studio 1 Week 2 Work Summary

Studio 1 Week 2 Work Summary

This week I focused on character design and style development in order to create some groundwork to begin story-boarding for my film. My initial investigation into the art direction help a lot, and also allowed me to further understand the kind of animation style and general aesthetics I hope to showcase in my film. In my further study, I came across some more examples of other works I will take inspiration from as follows: 

“Beautiful Brain” - https://youtu.be/GaLV82vOSsQ

“There's a Man in the Woods” - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXY71hCkLCE

“Beautiful Brain” shows almost exactly the type of animation style I’ll be going for in my film, it is minimalist and textured, yet has smaller moments with some interesting use of frame-by-frame animation. The colour scheme in this film also matches up with the kind of minimalist, warm  colour palette I will be going for in mine. The textured line-work is another aspect of general aesthetics are some other things I will be taking from this film, similar to another film I references in a prior post (“Float-Land” - https://youtu.be/FuyzMAo8D74 ) the line-work creates a choppy, pixelated effect that I’m very fond of, it also matches with two of the major themes for my piece,  being “digital” and “technology”.

“There's a Man in the Woods” Is a far more complex story, but the colours and the line-work style match up with the kind of aesthetics I’m going for. The poem style talking over the film is also another narrative threat I’m thinking about exploring, it could also be an interesting way to keep a narrative short and concise and produce double meanings in my work.  

Overall, my work this week has allowed me to lay the groundwork down for going forward, I will now begin to focus on threading a narrative together by storyboarding and expanding further with character design and background design, I will also try to create a animatic with the resources I have created.